Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Overflow, posted on Twitter the other day that he once checked in a robots.txt that deindexed all Stack Overflow content from Google. In which, Matt Cutts, the ex-Googler, responded that “to be fair, a lot of people do this…

Google posted on Twitter a survey asking webmasters why they use the site: search operator. If Google didn’t say a month ago that they are keeping the site command I’d be concerned that this was about Google potentially pulling this useful search operator…

The Google App for both iOS and Android has begun displaying “Trending News” cards along with “Related stories” carousels. The post Google App Showing Trending News Cards on iOS and Android by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

Posted by KristinaKledzik A few weeks ago, rankings for pages on a key section of my site dropped an average of a full position in one day. I’ve been an SEO for 7 years now, but I still ran around like a chicken with my head cut off, panicked that I wouldn’t be able to figure out my mistake. There are so many things that could’ve gone wrong: Did I or my team unintentionally mess with internal link equity?

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. The post SearchCap: AMP expands, Flickr similar search & Google AdWords conversions appeared first on Search Engine Land.

Britney Muller from Moz, no relation to John Mueller from Google, posted on Twitter several weeks ago that Moz lost a featured snippet in Google because the page had a typo, a spelling mistake. She said when she fixed the typo..

Flickr says its new search option uses advanced technology to surface similar photos without much work on the user’s end.

About six-weeks ago, Google’s John Mueller announced in the Google Webmaster Help forums that they have moved support for Google Firebase app indexing…

Columnist Todd Saunders discusses the importance of data-fueled decision-making with regard to ad copy and suggests a few tools to help you test and optimize your search ads. The post 3 free AdWords testing tools to adopt today appeared first on Search Engine Land.